The Really Wild Jam launches Cambridge’s Green Trail connecting culture, community, and biodiversity.

A day-long concrete jam with DJs, dance, and live installations marks the opening of a new creative nature corridor linking Cambridge North station with SIN Cru’s micro eco studio and community garden.

The Really Wild Jam marks the official launch of the Green Trail, a creative nature corridor designed to enhance biodiversity while connecting Cambridge North train station to SIN Cru’s Def Real Build micro eco studio and community garden in Kings Hedges.

Taking place on Friday 29 May, 9:00am–6:00pm at Cambridge North Train Station, the event brings together live DJs, performances, and an open dancefloor alongside a guided walk through the trail’s ten wayfinding points.  The day is designed as a drop-in, open-access experience, inviting audiences to participate fully, engage in passing, or simply take a moment within the space.

The Green Trail is an artist-led project bringing together local communities and schools with both local and national creatives.  Developed in partnership with organisations including On the Verge and GoodGym, the project has been made possible through funding from CrossCountry Trains’ BIP Fund and The National Lottery.

At its core, the initiative explores the interconnectivity between nature, Hip Hop, and adjacent art forms, responding to a broader moment in which both natural habitats and cultural practices are increasingly fragmented or disconnected from their roots.  The Green Trail proposes an alternative framework, one in which culture and ecology are understood as interdependent, living systems that thrive through sharing and ongoing adaptation.

The trail itself is activated through ten site-specific wayfinding points, each featuring a creative response ranging from planting interventions to poetry and dance film.  Together, these form a distributed, evolving artwork across the landscape, further enhanced by an accompanying audio album designed to be experienced while walking the trail.

‘The Green Trail is about bringing culture and nature back into relationship.  Natural habitats and cultural practices are becoming fragmented or disconnected from their roots, and this project responds by creating a shared corridor where they can overlap and evolve together.  The trail connects sound, movement, and environment, positioning culture and ecology as part of the same living system.  The Really Wild Jam activates this connection live, inviting people to move through it and become part of it.’            lucy | AD

From 9.00am the station forecourt will be animated with live DJs and an open dancefloor, welcoming people of all ages and backgrounds. 

From 1:00pm a series of speakers, including representatives from CrossCountry Trains, will be joined by live poets and MCs*, offering reflections that bridge culture with environmental awareness. Valoris will also host the lino with live beatboxing and breakin’ showcases, foregrounding Hip Hop as a dynamic, embodied practice.

At 3:00pm, a guided walk of the Green Trail will depart from Cambridge North station, leading participants through all ten wayfinding points en route to SIN Cru’s studio in Kings Hedges.  Along the route, audiences will encounter live art interventions and unexpected moments, bringing the trail to life as an immersive journey.  Goodie bags will be available for the first participants to complete the walk.

*If you have bars you’d like to share at the event, please email: director@sincru.co.uk

The North Cambridge Green Trail is a community focussed biodiversity project delivered by SIN Cru as part of the Definitely Real Build activity 2026. It connects people, places, and green space between Turpyn Court in Arbury, and Cambridge North Station.

This project focuses on active use of green space through hands-on environmental
activity. It supports biodiversity, wellbeing, and community connection by involving
residents directly in planting, habitat creation, composting, and creative outdoor
workshops. Creating ‘accessible nature’ by creating a clear, community usable nature corridor and programming that helps people feel welcome using it.

The project responds to ongoing consultation with local residents, families and the
Definitely Real Build 2024/25 youth steering group, who highlighted interest in
accessible green space, practical eco-skills, and calm, inclusive activity close to home. Delivery is shaped around seasonal cycles and community availability, with opportunities for volunteering and school participation embedded throughout.

The Green Trail connects people with nature through calm, practical, community-
focussed environmental activity. It will link the Definitely Real Build site at Turpyn Court with Cambridge North Station through a creative way-finding trail which the project will plot and build over Spring 2026.

Get involved and have your say in the Green Trail by following this link to our community survey

Able – C from the Junior Sinstars reports:

The first part of the day started with a youth development class that was open to all young people, it covered the basics of DJing and gave us the opportunity to learn how to DJ with an expert. It was held at Nuns Way Pavillion. Mark introduced himself and told us a really funny story about how he got into scratching and Hip Hop:

He watched other DJs on TV and then tried to copy their movements on his parents’ records and player, while his parents were shouting at him for damaging their records!

After the youth development class, the Junior Sinstars attended a masterclass led by Mark. He asked us what we would like to learn during the session. Mark  uses the software Serato DJ  and he demonstrated some of the more advanced techniques to us, such as the baby scratch. Transformers scratches, cherp scratches and juggling. After showing us how it’s done, he gave us a chance to try it out, offering tips and feedback as we went along.

The session was hands-on (deck :), and everyone had an opportunity to practice and experiment. Mark kept things simple and made sure everyone was involved. By the end of the day, we had learnt how to do different types of scratches and how to juggle effectively. We gained insight into what it takes to be an expert  DJ and all of us agreed we’d like to have more masterclasses like this in the future.

What is our Definitely Real Build project?
Definitely Real Build is a community project to help support young people and North Cambridge residents experiencing challenges accessing arts and culture provision, and to provide a safe green space with activity teaching about nature, sustainability and healthy active lifestyles. It’s also a space for local artists and people in our community in need.  We have been delivering arts projects for young people and their families for nearly 30 years, and it is now more crucial then ever to provide space and activity to support those who are faced with complex needs and challenges. The community garden and build project will enable young people to spend a productive time outdoors developing a space where they and other community members can;
Be active outdoors – connect with nature – have a safe space to visit – learn – form friendships – inspire creativity – collaborate – build confidence – celebrate – have ownership of work and space – work on emotional wellbeing and physical health – attend workshops – develop skills – and relax in a peaceful environment

1. How can you support our community build?
2. Company sponsorship – regular or one off, any amount big or small
3. Support in kind – donate items and/or services
4. Donations
6. We have created a shopping list of items we are gathering to make this project happen:

We are also accepting donations to support the build

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How can we work together?
We love to shout out loud about all our sponsors and supporters. We are proud to recommend our sponsors, donors and those who have contributed to our projects and work, across our social media platforms. Our thankyou packages include your company logos/ name on our marketing, copies of S T U S H magazine, and VIP tickets to our public performances. We are open to working and collaborating with individuals, organisations and businesses, so it would great to hear from you.

For further info please reach out to Lucy: director@sincru.co.uk

More on our reasons and our vision…
We have been busy nurturing 1000’s of young people, delivering to amateur and professional beneficiaries, creating thought provoking, well received dance theatre, and facilitating opportunities for people to access art and culture through our project work, festivals, events, classes, and performances since the mid ’90s. If 2020 has taught us anything, it is that what we consider normal can be snatched away faster than Paul Daniels’ tablecloth.  We must be more robust and self reliant than ever before.  Over lockdown, changes in the arts and self employed sectors meant that many arts organisations and sole traders simply stopped doing business.  Over the past decade live venues have already seen drastic changes to how people access art and culture, and have had to adapt, but the COVID-19 pandemic left performance spaces closed with no definite time frame, and sadly many have not reopened their doors.

In the spirit of self reliance and independence, SIN Cru has launched a brand new work space build.  This dream build is an experiment in the unconventional, a template for all and any arts organisations and artists to use, to show that development and community go hand in hand.  An offer of stability and security in a pending world, a creative oasis in the middle of the Kings Hedges council estate.  This micro build will be made from a steel shipping container, remodelled to have windows, doors, underfloor heating, and a multi purpose work space for our current and future teams to run the company from.  In designing the studio, we are learning about ecology and spending more time looking outside to be able to create the most productive work space inside.

We have received start-up support from Abington Woods and learned a lot from their expertise, alongside a dedicated team of young people who have assisted and managed aspects of the project. In order to realise our goal we are looking for community sponsorship from individuals and companies that specialise in DIY, building, and decorating.

This project along with all the work we do at SIN Cru is optimistic, defies the concept of impossible, develops people, builds our communities, and promotes positive changes in people’s lives.